The World Health Organisation's Covid-19 dashboard showed Monday a new one-day record high had been reached at 307,930 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus, AFP reports.

The WHO's complete figures for Sunday showed that 307,930 cases were confirmed to the UN health agency during the day, 19,870 higher than Saturday's tally.

Daily confirmed cases have only topped 300,000 once before, when 306,857 were recorded on September 6.

Within each week, the pattern of cases being reported to the WHO tends to spike towards Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and dip around Tuesday and Wednesday.

According to the WHO's figures, there have been more than 28,870,000 confirmed cases of the respiratory disease, while more than 921,800 people have lost their lives, including 5,537 on Sunday.